Does anyone still buy and collect DVDs?

Yeah, I've had far too many problems with trying to simply play Blu-ray discs on my desktop computer, but I still would not want to be without a Blu drive to rip discs and burn BD-R discs from image files. I have a slimline external USB Samsung drive - Wirecutter has good recommendations for both DVD and Blu drives (the one I have is their previous pick for best Blu drive). The Blu drives can be had for quite a bit cheaper than the price listed by Wirecutter if you keep an eye on sales at Newegg, Amazon, etc.:

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-external-blu-ray-drive/

 

I'm finding for used dvds I have to look for a different source for finding obscure DVD titles as I find the same familiar DVDs everywhere. That's the problem when you have a large ( mines is not huge)collection.

 

Well since my DVD buying now is almost exclusively music concert DVDs/Blurays and 2/3 are opera DVDs I don't have a choice. I am lucky if I can find the DVD. As for films, I never buy a movie DVD that I don't expect to be able to play occasionally through the years.

 

The last DVD box set I purchased was HBOs Band of Brothers in 2005. Now my wife and I only purchase blue ray tv series or movies that we watch over and over again ie game of thrones, the walking dead, mad men etc.

 

Just bought a DVD-MOD set of the first season of HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, the 1957 TV series based on the film and starring Barbara Eden. It'll never make it to Blu-ray or high-def, and I wanted to see it again.

 

I have Steven Spielberg's Taken mini-series on DVD coming. I've been meaning to pick it up for years. A wildly underrated television mini-series that came and went.

 

Yeah, the good TV series deserves the blu ray box.

 

I'll buy DVDs and Blu-rays of things I really love and want to keep. Streaming is too uncertain- many times I saw something I wanted to see on Netflix, and when I went back a few weeks later it was gone. Things are taken off of these streaming platforms all the time

 

"Does everyone still buys and collects DVDs?"

Yes!

 

^This.

I'm worried that I would buy something on streaming and then if the studio lost the rights, I am locked out of it. If large hard drives were more reliable and it was legal to rip your own stuff, it would make more sense to get a NAS and host your own streaming.

 

Beautiful !

 

I collect the DVD, still collect em' and probably will collect em' forever, I'm done changing media at the publics whim. La de daa de da dee daa tis summer!

 

A lot of movies seem to rotate from service to service. For example, one may be on Netflix for a while and then be gone overnight only to end up on Hulu or Amazon Video. And some of them are available concurrently on multiple platforms at once.

 

I like DVD's. They're the CD's of Film.

 

That's more than mine.
dvdtheken excelsior.

 

The advantage of collecting DVDs now assuming you've got the space is that about 99% is worthless. Best to keep /rainy day view. If production standards are high, classic film ( your definition) upgrade to blu ray.

 

That's a neat description.

 

I'm tempted to buy a 4K title.

 

I like to put them in brand new spanking case, gives them the kiss of life, I'm a bit anal about that.

 

The Name Above The Title"

 

Must be about 5000 there ?

 

I'm curious how much longer they'll keep producing Blu-ray discs. With 4K UHD being the new high-fidelity format, and DVD still way outselling Blu-ray, it seems like they would just slowly taper off production in favor of 4K/DVD/Digital HD.

 

I was buying some new low priced DVDs 1.99/2.99 /blu rays 1.99.
B Movie schlock ( yeah, I know ) and a young lady was buying some DVD thriller. I pointed out to a blu Ray title ..she told she didn't have a BD player.

 

True, and then what happens if you susbscribe to one service and not the others, you're out of luck...